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Eric Zorn on the Death Penalty in Illinois

By Steve Hall

The Chicago Tribune columnist has two recent posts on his Change of Subject blog.  Earlier today Zorn posted, "Birkett: Death penalty all fixed."Joe Birkett interrupted me with a scornful, dismissive, "Oh, come on!"Not bad! We were more than 90 minutes into an extraordinary debriefing session with the often prickly DuPage County state's attorney Wednesday morning, and this was the first and really only flare-up. I'd expected more fireworks. Birkett invited a handful of journalists to join him in a conference room at the DuPage County Complex in Wheaton for a wide-open conversation about the Jeanine Nicarico case, a sad and sorry saga that's been a source of controversy for just over a quarter of a century...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).